You see, far too many naively accept what the media tells them as the gospel truth. I simply took the position that very often there's more than what meets the eye.
So how is it that you know what this "more" is better than they? Have you been to Iraq? Were you there before and during the war and are you still there? If not, how is it that you know THE TRUTH and the rest of us wallow in ignorance?
To illustrate: many Americans to this day still believe the attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor ("Day of Infamy") was an unprovoked and cowardly attack simply because President Roosevelt said it was so. However, it appears that Japan, an emerging power in the Asia-Pacific sphere that other powers wanted to emasculate, Japan felt it was being unfairly treated, in Machiavellian ways, by America in regard to imports of vital raw materials. So, it was not surprising that, with Germany as an ally, the Japanese attacked a la the German blitzkrieg style. Fortunately for the Americans, the Japanese secret code was broken with the result that the US always knew what the enemy was up to. Yet Roosevelt let the attack take place so as to be able to galvanize full national support for war.
A convenient conspiracy theory (didn't you claim not to be a conspiracy theorist?) that has yet to be proven. Over 60 years later.
And, yes, I am familiar with what happened leading up to Pearl Harbor. Quite possibly more than you. And your theory is a guess, but that is ALL it is.
So, let's wait for history to show where the chips fall. For now, Michael Moore of Fahrenheit 9/11 fame will give you quite an earful and eyeful.
Michael Moore will give me nothing because I will give Michael Moore not one thin dime.
My take is that Saddam was overly intoxicated with power and aggrandized by his henchmen and people. He was euphoric in his self-appointed role as the only tough Arab who dared stand up to the might of the US, and he told his Arab brothers elsewhere that attacks on Iraq were inevitable and a price to "pay for Muslim Renaissance". As he was fawned over by the US in the early 1980s and the western media exaggerated his power (btw, this was really part of a ploy to get him) Saddam loved to (or thus made) to believe he was invincible. This coupled with the fact that the UN would not cooperate with the US and Britain in regard to Iraq, no doubt, convinced him there would be no war. And so he strutted and strutted and enjoyed seeing everyone running circles around him. Of course, one must not forget he has enemies and traitors who betrayed him, notably Chalabi.
Another theory, but still just a theory.
As for Germany and Japan in World War II, as they were the ones that started the war, defence was not an option. War against them was fully justified regardless of whether there was demonization or not,of these countries.
And, even with that, the Germans and Japanese WERE demonized by the American gov't and media, were they not?
I brought out this demonization thing simply because lots of folks naively swallow the media's output hook-line-and-sinker like country yokels and become what Marx and Lenin called, "useful idiots" (i.e. useful to the goals of the perps.)
Has the thought occurred to you the "useful idiots" may not be the people you think they are?
Get a mirror. |
